The Tokyo String Quartet's farewell tour in Toronto is crowned by Bartók

The Tokyo String Quartet played a kind of “meta-goodbye” concert this Saturday evening at 92Y. The performance, their last at this venue before the quartet is disbanded, featured three great composers’ own farewells, the final works written for string chamber ensembles by Schubert, Haydn, and Bartók.

Bartók used folk music to find his own voice as a composer of classical music. He roamed the Balkans, north Africa and the Middle East to rediscover models of what was really music to his ears, much in the same spirit as Picasso and others searched out models of primitive representations to refresh what we see.

Mario Brunello recorrió obras de Bach y Weinberg en una interpretación plena de personalidad, cuyo carácter unitario mostraba voluntad por ofrecer una experiencia viva.

Ell Grup Instrumental de València presentó un programa de marcado carácter narrativo en homenaje al compositor György Kurtág.

Philippe Herreweghe ofreció una versión de la Pasión según san Mateo al frente del coro y la orquesta Collegium Vocale Gent de notable factura, emocionante y extremadamente expresiva.